For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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